(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Jan 2010, 320 pp., $14.95, ISBN:9781565129771, Pbk, Fic)
Two outwardly simple people are brought together by an ad in the newspaper - a wife is needed by a rich man in a remote part of the newly industrial west. Both enter into the relationship with dark pasts and darker intentions. Can these two survive a winter together without letting their secrets slip out? And will these secrets be their undoing in a world where murder and insanity are as common as the blizzards that imprison the town?
It will be hard finding another novel quite like this one. I can only compare the feeling I got while reading with movies like "The Piano", "Lolita", and "Damage" - the type of movie that is set in another time or place like a richly textured painting, and gives you the chills to look at it because of its slightly sinful nature.
Goolrick is a master storyteller and his retelling of the mythic story of Theseus brilliantly explores the darker side of the American experience. I look forward to reading his next work.
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